Workflow limit does not limit on AWX 21.6.0

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Bug Summary

Hi, I'm not really sure if this is a bug or if it's the normal behavior, but I can't really find what is the expected behavior in the documentation.

I'm creating a Workflow Job Template with a limit set on a specific host, calling a job template which has a limit set on a group. The job template is then applied to the all group (which is very surprising as you have defined a more restricted set just before when launching the workflow).

This behavior does not occur when the job template has the checkbox “prompt on launch” checked. I guess it's the same problem as #11967 which was closed as being marked as a duplicate of #11284 . I guess the explanation which is the best according to my case is the one on this comment : https://github.com/ansible/awx/issues/11284#issuecomment-961913484 .

AWX version

21.6.0

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• UI
• API
• Docs
• Collection
• CLI
• Other

Installation method

minikube

Modifications

no

Ansible version

2.15.5

Operating system

Debian 11

Web browser

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Steps to reproduce

In case it's not the same, I will explain the steps I did to face this issue :

1. Create a group in an inventory with various hosts

2. Create a job template with a limit on the group with the prompt on launch checkbox unchecked

3. Launch the job template

4. Create a workflow job template with a limit set to whichever host you want

5. Set a node calling the job template

Actual results

Looks like it's limited to localhost

1. This is where it's beginning to be strange to me and does not really make sense : the job template was applied to the limit defined in the job template, and not the one in the workflow template

Expected results

Whereas if on step 2 I check the prompt on launch checkbox and follow step 3/4/5 the workflow was launched on the limit defined on the workflow template job (which is what I want).

I except to have this result whether the checkbox is checked or not, or at least a warning telling me it will not limit to what I wrote in the limit text.

Additional information

I have found the following comment on another issue which says

As noted in the docs, the workflow limit "provide[s] a host pattern to further constrain the list of hosts that will be managed or affected by the workflow. This limit is applied to all job template nodes that prompt for a limit."

I've read the documentation on https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-tower/3.8.0/html/userguide/workflow_templates.html and I can't find this information. Where is it located?

This strange behavior lead us to delete half of our application instance when we wanted to delete only one (which was defined in limit text on workflob template job). Maybe a clear part on the documentation, or a warning (or something else? I have no idea what) telling when creating the workflow job template that the limit will not be applied would be best.

I'm not really sure this is really clear, let me know if you need some more information.